Archive for: July 11, 2008

July 11, 2008

iPhone lines cut off on East Coast and Midwest, west side still rockin’

Filed under: Review - 11 Jul 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
This’ll come as no surprise to those of you that’ve been following our worldwide line / stock watch, but with lines hitting six hours towering, Apple’s started capping them so that stores can shut and prepare for tomorrow. Reports of line capping are coming mostly from larger…

How would you change Popcorn Hour’s A-100 HD media streamer?

Filed under: Review - 11 Jul 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment
When Popcorn Hour’s Networked Media Tank / A-100 went on sale earlier that year, we didn’t really foresee it gaining so much fanfare. Even months after launch the unit still had a waiting list, and just recently has the commotion died down adequate so that supply and …

MobileMe still sputtering

Filed under: Review - 11 Jul 2008

Apple’s MobileMe service promises features that, like the release of Mac OS X Leopard, made me regret the recent purchase of another Windows Vista laptop, at least for a moment.

Having lost two laptops and five years of life history to theft several weeks ago, the allure of having precious info pu…

Former HP exec pleads guilty to stealing IBM trade secrets

Filed under: Review - 11 Jul 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWell, that didn’t take faraway. Atul Malhotra, the HP executive charged with stealing printer market data when he left IBM and sending it to his new colleagues at HP with the genius-level subject line “For Your Eyes Only,” has pled guilty to one count of theft of trade secr…

Creative Zen X-Fi gets US pricing details

Filed under: Review - 11 Jul 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Creative’s got a good thing going with the multifaceted Zen X-Fi — at least on paper — and we’re fairly thrilled to see it already hitting the websites of US e-tailers. Announced earlier that week in Singapore, the well-equipped PMP should be available s…

Hotspot Shield 1.05

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ZoneAlarm 7.0.483.000 Pro / with Antivirus / Internet Security Suite

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OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 Beta 2

OpenOffice org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open component based APIs and an XML based file format It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community nbsp

‘Official’ iPhone firmware 2.0 now available for download, seriously, for real

Filed under: Review - 11 Jul 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
So yesterday we posted a link to a version of the 2.0 iPhone firmware which was supposedly the release version of the new system software. After getting weirded out by some buggy behavior, thereupon discovering that there were number differences amoung our version and the ver…

Opera 9.52 Build 10089 Beta

The most full featured Internet power tool on the market Opera includes pop up blocking tabbed browsing integrated searches and advanced functions like Opera 39 s groundbreaking E mail program RSS Newsfeeds and IRC chat And because we know that our users have different needs you can customize the look and content of your Opera browser with a few clicks of the mouse

Google Earth 4.3.7284 Beta

The program lets you do smooth sailing flybyes of the entire Earth You can easily fly to any spot on the globe by entering any associated data like street addresses place names or lat long coordinates There are overlays that put additional information on the map like roads international boundaries terrain 3D buildings crime statistics schools stadiums any number of interesting stuff You can do Local searches in the program with icons on the map and a display on the side showing your results You can leave notes called placemarks all over the map so you can remember where all sorts of places are Searches and placemarks can be saved as bookmarks in My Places Everything can be output in an XML format called KML that will allow the vast popularity of Google Maps to continue in Earth You can also email a JPEG of the map or send a KMZ file if you know the recipient has Earth installed Google Earth is free for personal use No registration is required

Rock Band 2 special edition Ion drum kit and real Fender Stratocaster guitar controllers coming

Filed under: Review - 11 Jul 2008

Filed under: Gaming
Playing Rock Band sometimes feels like the real thing, but what whether it looked like the real thing? Ion, who prepare real drum kits, have announced that they will release a premium Rock Band 2 drum kit that will not only have realistic pads and cymbals (which you can custom-as…

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